Time For Some Music

Here's a clip of a kinescope recording of a 1959 ABC Network telecast of Lawrence Welk's Saturday night Dodge Dancing Party, with Larry Hooper performing the "Piccolo and Bass Horn Polka."  Larry's joined by Orie Amadeo on piccolo and Buddy Hayes on tuba.

Time For Jerry, Larry, and Tiny

In this clip from a 1957 ABC Network telecast of Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent, here are Jerry Burke, Larry Hooper, and Big Tiny Little on triplet pianos, performing "The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else."  This was Lawrence's Monday night ABC show that was sponsored by the Dodge and Plymouth divisions of Chrysler Corporation.

Time For Some Country And Western Music, The Lawrence Welk Way

Here are Bob Lido, Larry Dean, Alvan Ashby, and Larry Hooper, performing the big hit for Ray Price (and Guy Mitchell), "Heartaches By The Number," in this clip of an ABC telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show from either late 1959 or early 1960.

Okay, So Where The Hell's The Larry Hooper Pure Pork Sausage?!

In this clip from a 1962 ABC telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here's Larry Hooper performing his version of "Big Bad John," a song that, or course, was popularized by Jimmy Dean.

Time For An Entertaining Little Ditty

From 1960,

In this clip from an ABC telecast of the Lawrence Welk Show, here's Larry Hooper singing "The Big Bass Violin Song," joined on the double bass by Buddy Hayes.

Jerry, Larry, and Tiny

In this clip from a 1958 ABC telecast of Lawrence Welk's Saturday night Dodge Dancing Party, we see Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke, and Big Tiny Little, Jr. performing "Jealous" on pianos.

Make Room For Tiny And Larry

In this clip from a 1959 ABC telecast of The Plymouth Show, which was Lawrence Welk's Wednesday night series, here are pianist "Big" Tiny Little and vocalist Larry Hooper performing "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

Rock N' Roll Larry

Here's Larry Hooper, performing "My Little Baby" on a 1957 ABC telecast of Lawrence Welk's Dodge Dancing Party.

Champagne Music, Anyone?

In this clip from a 1959 ABC telecast of the Lawrence Welk Show, we see pianists Frank Scott, Larry Hooper, and Big Tiny Little, and organist Jerry Burke perform "Anything Goes." The Saturday shows were still entitled the Dodge Dancing Party.